The New MS Office 2007 File Formats and

The New MS Office 2007 File Formats and How to Generate them from 4 GL Alon Blich A. B. C

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MS Office 2007 File Formats Technical Overview � XML Files in a ZIP File � Set of Markup Languages and Conventions Called Together Office Open XML � Open and Well Documented ◦ ECMA-376, ISO/IEC 29500 Standard � Open Office and MS Office Format War

MS Office 2007 File Formats Feature Overview � Rich and Powerful File Format ◦ Pivot Tables, 3 D Charts, Images etc. � Widely Supported ◦ MS Office 2000 or better, Open Office 3. 0, Google Docs, Apple i. Works, IBM Lotus Notes, Corel Word. Perfect even Word. Pad and Text Edit � Generate Documents and Read Data from Documents � Use as a Neutral Document Format to Convert to other Document Formats

A Closer Look at Open. XML

Word and Excel Utilites Features at a Glance � Runs on UNIX/Linux/Windows and Progress V 9 or better � Visual Design in Office Merge Data in Progress � 100 Times Faster then Active. X/OLE � Conversion to Open Office, PDF, HTML etc. even future formats as they become available

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Links � Word and Excel Utils Test Drive Version and Samples http: //www. oehive. org/project/libooxml � Standard Libraries Open Source Project http: //www. oehive. org/project/lib

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